And if I could only pick one link for you to click? The Best Thing Ever's review of Yotsuba&! If you're not already reading this book, carrying this book, and pushing this book on every customer with good taste that walks through your bookstore's door, NOW'S THE TIME TO START.

Further proof that the publishing industry isn't looking for 'The Next Big Thing,' but instead, 'The Last Big Thing,' Little Brown has inked a five book deal with Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler...for five new Lemony Snicket books.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

StumbleUponUs.com has either one-upped the typical Top 10 list, or fallen two short of the fabled baker's dozen. Whichever, the flicks picked are all great...well, except for Shakespeare In Love.Writers looking for an excuse not to write -- this one's for you. Go, look!

A bankruptcy judge has ruled that Warren Beatty's suit against the Tribune Co. can go forward. Beatty is suing the bankrupt corporation over the TV and movie rights to Dick Tracy, while the Tribune Co. probably just wants to stop Beatty from making any more sh*tty Dick Tracy films.

Holy crap. Bookstore employees have rights? And they stand up for them? Publicly? And in the press? Wait, why wasn't I told about this?

Mr. Rogers was an inspiration to countless puppet-loving, trolley obsessed, postman-fetishizing kids. So why the hell are they defaming his memory with this stomach-churning statue?

Admission time: Do you want to know the reason I started dedicating Tuesday's posts to writing links and Thursday's to adaptation news? So I could break up the days between Sarah Palin posts. That said, it's been almost 24 hours. Here's the "leaked" details of Palin's "roguish book tour."

The name Rodrigo Corral may not fire off any synapses in your brain, but a quick look at some of his cover art will surely set your sense memory atwitter. Dude not only did the cover art compiled below, he's also responsible for the covers to James Frey's infamous A Million Little Pieces and Junot Diaz' Pulitzer Prize-winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. To see more of Corral's book covers, as well as some of his magazine work, click here. For a 5 question interview with Corral, click here.

Snuff by Chuck PalahniukBush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President by Justin A. Frank

Him Her Him Again The End of Him by Patricia MarxHow to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer by Debbie Millman

Rant by Chuck PalahniukHere's How I See It, Here's How It Is by Heather Henson